Improvement in crib attachments to bedsteads



F. RYDER.

Crib-Attachment to Bedsteads.

Patented Aug.13,1872.

JignZ.

'UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGE,

FREEMAN RYDER, OF GREATA FALLS, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

IMPROVEMENT lN CRIB ATTACHMENTS TO BEDSTEADS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,425.3, dated August13, 187:2.

Specification describing a new and Improved Crib Attachment toBedsteads, invented by FREEMAN RYDER, of Great Falls, in the county ofStrafford and State of New Hampshire. lMy invention consists of a cribattachment to bedsteads, arranged in such manner that the crib-bedconstitutes a kind or" lateral eX- tension of the principal bed, andthereby greatly facilitates the taking out or putting in of children byone lying in the principal bed, because it obviates the necessity oflift ing them over the sides of the frame of the ordinary crib, andconstitutes the crib-bed a part of the principal one.

Figure 1 is a sideelevation of a bedstead with a crib attachment appliedaccording to my invention, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken onthe line x x of Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending parts.

Ais the ordinary bedstead, and B is the frame of the crib attachment,which in this example is attached by the vertical pieces C,

at one side of the bottom, being iitted in the vertical clips D attachedto the side of A; the said vertical pieces C and the other side of thecrib being connected by braces E for sup porting the outer side of thecrib properly. This arrangement allows the crib to be taken oft' and puton readily, as may be required. Instead of the pieces C and clips'D,hooks may be attached to the bottom ot' the crib to catch on the top ofthe side of A, and the braces E may res't against the side of A or enterlittle recesses in the side. The attachment may also be eected by otherequivalent contrivances, and I do not limit myself to any particularWay, but propose to havevit detachably connected. The bottom of the cribWill be about as high as the top of the side of bedstead A, and saidcrib will have no side piece on the side next to A, so that the cribbedmay be a lateral prolongation of the principal bed, without any suchinterruption as necessarily exists when the common separate crib is usedalong side of the principal bed, the inconveniences of which are tooevident to need description.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent- In combination Withthe bedstead A a cribbedattachment, B, substantially as shown and described. v

- FREEMAN RYDER.

.- Witnesses:

ANsoN P. TEAYER, W. A. GRAHAM.

